Learn how to boost your blues to pro levels of authenticity with a handful of great chords and a rock-solid rhythm technique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's never been more choice when it comes to electric guitars for blues guitarists, but we've narrowed down the field To get ...

Blues and rock is still being shaped by the British blues boom of the ’60s – and the O.G. bluesmen who influenced them. But how can today’s players nail their tone and sound? Marcus King, Samantha ...

Joanne Shaw Taylor is widely considered a blues artist, but she doesn’t consider any of her nine studio albums to be blues records and she doesn’t write what she sees as blues songs. “I’ve always said ...

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next ...

The first album from Gary Clark Jr. in five years, last month’s JPEG RAW, features guest appearances from Stevie Wonder and George Clinton. They sound perfectly at home, because Clark’s entire record ...

Nothing says “I’m hurtin'” like the wail of a mournful guitar. It’s a sound that melts the heart and pierces the soul. While the blues saw a resurgence in the ’80s and ’90s, it’s fallen off the ...